I think my first knowledge of Basho came from "Caddyshack." Chevy Case, strolling around the putting green, quips: "'A flute with no holes, is not a flute. And a donut with no hole, is a Danish.' Funny guy."

But here is the real thing:

"In the cicada's cry,
No sign can foretell
How soon it must die."

Ah, the present moment.